The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-19


Jersey City Steel Company near Scranton. on
which to erect steel-works to employ 600 men,
Westinghouse employs 775 men in nis shops.
Pittsburg electrical supply house sold Denver
10000 worth of electrical trappings and wires.
A French engineer soaks rags in petroleum
bnd ignites them by electricity fixed interv ais
when the men out OF the mines to burn the
re-damp.
The Tay bridge is at lac: completed. On
Dec. 2S. 1879. train with from 70 to 90
persons went down, and no. soul was ever
heard from
Five thousand spindles will be put into new
blk mill at Weatherly. Pa, twelve miles from
Mauch Chunk. to be ready Jan. 1t will
be 250x45 feet.
The aggregate loss to the building trades of
Chicago is 100000. The boot and shoe
makers have lost between a. O00 600 and &c, 900,
600 during the past year.
English trades-union cooperative effort is
declining. Co-operators in England anticipate
but little progress in productive cooperation
disconnected with stores
Returns from sixty textile manufacturing
Corporations in New England show an improve
ment over last year which brings the dividends
MP TO about where they were in 1882
A $4,000. 900 consolidation of mining interests
has just been consummated In the Lake Supe-
rior region. in which capitalists in this country,
London and Hamburg are Interested
A Michigan labor paper says there are 5OOOo
knights in the State and that 40 Ooo never
heard their platform read. 30, OOO DO not oeneve
its propositions, and 80. 900 vote against it.
Schemes to erect houses for mechanics are
multiplying. This promises to be a favorite
field for investment for the next year or two In
titles and towns in manufacturing localities.
Trades unionism in Europe is not fourishng
as much as il few years The work
men have grown weary and recognize that be-
yond certain prescribed limits they cannot go.
Two steel ferry boats. to cost $45G, 900. are be-
ing built at Baltimore. They are to run nineteen
miles DER hour and make the distance between
Staten Island and the Battery in fifteen minutes.
The European immigration agencies are trans
lating brilliant descriptions OF the condition or
American mechanics. laborers and farmers for
the benefit of those they want to bring to this
side.
A 81, 900, 900 company will pipe artificial gas
from the coal fields of Illinois to St Louis, a dis
lance of eleven miles. About threefourths OF
the cost of coal is freight A ton of coal will
produce ZOO feet of gas
Builders of hate years have been giving up
1ath and pastered ceilings in large buildings. as
well light floor timbers, for heavy tim bers and
thick, closely laid three-inch floors The de-
creased insurance makes it pay.
The labor holiday inaugurated by the Knights
will be much more generally observed this year
than it was last. and especially in the Western
States, where there appears to be more pro-
gressive spirit
The Cornwall iron property is worth $40, 000.-
600. or at least yields per cent on that caDi-
tazaton The fence to inclose it would have
ments is SO, 600. 900 to 81. 0O0, 900.
Pennsylvania nail-maker, who turns out
LOCO kegs week, expects to remove to Toledo.
where he can save 81. 80 per ton on ore make
saving on fuel by using natural gas, and save y
tents per key freight to his market.
Two rival factions will meet in the Knights of
Labor convention at Fall River on Tuesday, one
led by Litchm "a ooo and the other by Mcneil.
The order is 43, 600 strong in the State, and has
gained ground under RoberE Howard.
There are 10000 to a. 900 mon employed at
the Woolwich arsenal, England. which covers
$50 acres, exclusive of the dock-yards There
rnila Of rail Thara al Chf
chimney stacks, one of which is 220 feet high.
Sixteen glass factories, newly constructed,
will start up m September, having 206 potts. of
which 100 are for window glass. 20 for flint, so
for tableware and for green glass. It is likely
that several of the window glass factories in
Few jersey will remain idle next year.
One hundred delegates attended the Waco,
Tex, Union Labor party convention. The Kan
sas farmers are entering farmers alliances in
large numbers Weaver has thrown up his law
business TO shout for the reformers. There
were 300 delegates to the Ohio convention.
Wooden shoes are being sold in London for
board school children whose parents too often
pawn leather shoes. They retail at to ~ cents
ser pair, and have leather tops. They are made
Hungary and Hungarian agency has been
opened tor their general introduction among
that class Of children.
The Georgia Knights propose to erect a CO.
operative knitting mill near Augusta, Ga, whore
water power can be used Brown sheetings,
shirtines and drilings will be made in large
Quantities in the mill to be erected at Column
Dus, Miss. Nearly all the southern mills are in
creasng their capacity.
During the first half of the last four years, be.
ginning with 1887. the number of buildings
erected in New York were respectively 1923,
PASS, 500 and l. 1885, and the sums invested were.
in round figur $47. 600, 600, $4,000 600. $27,-
BOO, 900 and 500 900. This years investments
are % per cent ahead OF last year.
Young Scandinavian engineers from the poly
technic schools of Europe are crowding Young
American engineers aside in many quarters of
the West. There are thirty OF the former
gagged in the railroad shops at st. Paul and Min
neapols. and many important city improvements
have been completed under their supervision
There is such demand for hosting machin-
cry in Western States that enlargements have
been begun in nearly all the works. The de-
mand for lake tonnage is also exceptionally
heavy and boat-yards and shops are being filed
with new machinery. Hydraulic plants are be-
ing put in in preference to steam plants at diff
ferent points
English farmers are rejoicing over the fact
that they able to decrease fresh beef impor-
tations from the United States. The decline for
the first ak months Of the past three years has
been 80, 81 and 81 per cent. respectively. Amer
lean competition is stimulating enterprise to
find better methods in stock raising and agrcul
ture
The window glass output for the past year was
27sO 900 boxes of 1.020 pots. $50. 900 boxes
over the previous year. There are ], lab pots in
all. and 139 being built. of which 120 are in
the West. The ], 80 pots that will run during
the coming year. beginning in September. will
turn out GOO 900 boxes, which liz double the
capacity Of 1881.
Architects predicting very busy fall and
winter. Much interior church, Office and resi-
dence renovation will be done after the outdoor
season shall have been closed. The alteration of
house fronts. leading architects say, will soon
become very important feature. and each
house will be made TO look different from its
neighbor.
The falling away from the Knights Of Labor
will likely decimate that organization. Those
Withdrawing entertained misconcepton as to
the aims and methods of the organization.
the knights will hold a powerful nucleus for
another advance.when work shall be scarce and
wages lower.
Shoe manufacturing is increasing. Three
large factories are to be built at Beverly The
boot and shoe shipments from Boston since
January TO date were 1,491. S2l cases, against
e . 49, L. 49, 1870 4. lDuA